CAN YOU HEAR THE ECHO

(font: "Times New Roman")[you've never (text-style:"fidget")[broken] a bone, but your right front tooth is fake because, well, sometimes you can't resist showing off and you think that just because you've never had your classmates sign their names into the white plaster of a cast doesn't mean you didn't (text-style:"fidget")[slam] your head into your knee on that trampoline it doesn't mean your body doesn't take up [[space->boyhood]]]

(font: "Helvetica")[CAN YOU HEAR THE ECHO? NOT THE ABSENCE OF SOUND--THAT'S SILENCE, SILLY. NO, THIS IS SOMETHING STRONGER, SOMETHING LARGER SOMETHING I HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE, SOMETHING YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE THIS IS THE REFLECTION OF THEM, THE ONES WHO CAME BEFORE THIS IS THEIR ECHO--ISN'T THAT SWEET, DARLING? A HOMAGE TO THOSE WHO WORE THE BOOTS BEFORE THEY COVERED YOUR DIRT-STRAINED FEET A RING OF KEYS JINGLING IN AN EMPTY GROCERY STORE. ISN'T THAT A NICE SOUND, DEAR? DON'T YOU WISH YOU SOUNDED LIKE THAT TOO?] (text-style:"bold","outline","shudder")[[[CLICK HERE TO SOUND LIKE THAT->butch]]]

you knew what (font: "Arial")[(text-style:"bold","expand")[BOYHOOD]] was, wore it like a cape until you didn’t, covered yourself in a golden fleece of yellow birch and chipped teeth until you didn’t. until you realized little (font: "Arial")[(text-style:"bold","expand")[GIRLS]] didn’t slam their heads into walls to see what would shake out. so your head healed, but sometimes you’d bruise too easily ‘round the eyes from waking up with your fist against your face, and when your (font:"Arial")[(text-style:"bold","expand")[SISTERS]] asked why you had a black eye you’d realize that you could not get away with your (font:"Arial")[(text-style:"bold","expand")[BRUISES]] [[any more.->boyhood]]

(align:"=><=")+(box:"X")[= (text-colour:#b197fc)[(text-style:"bold","emboss","expand","underline")+(font:"Helvetica")+(css: "font-size: 150%;")[CAN YOU HEAR THE ECHO?]] (font:"Helvetica")[A GAME BY A.C.D] (font:"Helvetica")[[[START->intro]]]

The best way to make sure your kid doesn't become catholic is to send them to catholic school How many dresses does your kid need to wear before he becomes a butch? We're about to find out, [[aren't we?->feminine ]]

(font:"Courier New")[wow!!!1111 ur so pretty omg XD i could just eat u up like a cupcake!!!1111 or someone's still-beating heart have u evr ripped out a heart??? no????// :OOOOOOO not with those nails, silly!!!11 not with those legs, silly!!11 not with those teeth not with those armpits not with those feet not with those not with those you won't be ripping out any hearts with those you won't be doing anything with those We don't need you to do anything with those u silly goose u little slutty silly little goosetits sack of shit luv u, [[mwah->boyhood]]]

Congratulations. You sound like that. [[Play again?->title]]

would you like to see two sides of the same coin? (align:"=><=")+(text-style:"bold","outline")[[[HEADS->broken bones]] [[TAILS->yellow birch]]] oh, [[skip the spiel->space]]

(align:"<==>")+(box:"X")+(text-style:"bold","outline","expand")+(css: "font-size: 250%;")[THIS IS YOUR BODY] (align:"=><=")+(text-style:"expand")[[[LISTEN CLOSELY->ECHO]]]